Shoe for car doors



Sept. 28 1926. V I F J. GILROY SHOE FOR om noons Filed Sept. 4, 192

Patented Sept. 28; 1926.

FRANK J. eILRoY, or BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

SHOE FOR OAR DOORS;

Application filed September This invention relates to a device usable oncars having sliding doors which are in common use, and it is intendec tolessen the chance of wrongful opening of frei 'ht cars by removing theshoes secured to tne body of the car and normally holding the closeddoor against being pried away from the car wall, at its lower side.Usually, analogous shoes are secured to the car by bolts, and notinfrequently dishonest persons remove the bolts and by swinging thelower side of the door outward obtain access to the car with outbreaking the car seal, and then by replacing the door, shoe and bolts,make detection difiicult.

It is to be considered that while it is a simple matter to cut anopening into any wood or metal car, thieves of the class suggested avoidsuch expedients, for if detected there is no explanation consist-outwithproper purposes on the part of an employee of the railway, as thievessometimes succeed in obtaining such employment. If, however, a shoe canbe removed with tools ordinarily carried by such employee for legitimateuse, it is very difficult to show criminal intent, since the employeeusually claims that the car was found in bad order, and he was merelytrying to determine its safety and the propriety of allowing it to leavethe yard without thorough repair.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a door, car wall, and ashoe in place thereon.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22, Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a plan view showing my guide fixed to a sill.

Fig. 4 is a section on the line i4, Fig. 1.

In these figures, A represents a car door, B a protecting plate on theouter face of the doors lower side, B a car sill, R- the body of ahollow upwardly open box-like shoe.

Primarily, this shoe is open above, only, and in the plane of the doorspath, and when in use with the door closed the opening is fully coveredand closed by a lid R hinged at O, O, to swing upward about an axis Ywhen the door has been opened, except for one shoe which engages thedoor in open as well as in closed position. This shoe must be attachedbefore the door is hung, and it can afterwards be detached only'byremoving first one of the door stops 4, 1824. Serial No. 735,938.

cessible only when the lid is raised, as it can be only when uncoveredby the door. The door being removed, the nuts of all the shoes may beunscrewed by the use of a suitable wrench.

The outer box wall extends upward to a point M and is laterally slightlyrounded outward or away from'the doors path and is integral with largestilfening ribs C. The lids are curved on their free margins, as shownin Fig. 3, to fit the upwardly projecting outer wall of the box, fromwhich, however, they are spaced at N.

As shown, the car floor D is spaced from the door, but it is understoodthat when desired the device shown may be closed in any approved manner,or by means not concerned in this invention.

It will be observed that the countersunk heads of the bolts P afford nomeans for rotating the bolts, which in any case are not rotatable in thewood by any ordinary force.

As the guides are of malleable iron, they can, although not heavy,hardly be injured by accident or design, and cannot be removed untiluncovered by the door and the lid raised. The lid serves the purpose ofexcluding extraneous matter.

lVhat I claim is:

1. The combination with a car having a door opening, of a door-receivingshoe, below said opening, in the form of a box open above and closedotherwise and secured to the car wall by bolts having countersunk headsand nut-receiving threaded ends projecting into the box, and a dooradapted to cover, when closed, the opening in said box, whereby the nutsare inaccessible while the door covers said opening.

2. The combination with a railway car and its sliding door, of a hollowguide shoe, for the lower side of the door, provided with a hinged lidadapted to open upwardly and excluding extraneous matter.

3. The combination with a freight car and its sliding door, of a shoe,for holding the lower side of the door in its proper plane,

made in the form of a boX open upwardly and its sliding door, of ahollow guide shoe, only and having its outer wall projecting for thelower side of the door, provided with upward alongside the plane of thedoor, and a lid adapted to exclude extraneous matter non-rotary boltspassing outward from the from said guide shoe. ear wall into the boX andsecured by nuts in In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my the latter.signature.

4. The combination with a railway ear FRANK J. GILROY.

